Carbon Capture & Utilization

Deployment of Affordable Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) Coatings to Improve Efficiencies in Transportation

Borisov V., Rudenko P., Martonick A., TriboTEX, US

According to the EPA the transportation sector in the United States is set to be the largest emitter of pollutants into the atmosphere. In 2015, 27% of total greenhouse gas emitted was due to the [...]

A Green Plastic and Drop-in Transportation Fuels from Carbon Dioxide and Renewable Energy

Yu J., University of Hawaii at Manoa, US

With rapid technology progress and cost reduction, more electrical power is generated from renewable solar radiation and wind. Because of the intrinsic intermittency, however, the renewable power posts a great challenge to grid stability, and [...]

Conversion of CO2 to Value-Added Specialty Chemicals

Panchal C.B., Prindle J., Doctor R., Sturtz R., E3Tec, US

In the past two centuries, fossil fuel supplied by coal, petroleum and natural gas has played a key role in establishing the modern world economy. When the global demand for electricity increased from 8.3 million [...]

Theoretical Study of Solid Materials for CO2 Capture Technology

Duan Y., National Energy Technology Laboratory, US

In this presentation, we will update our progress on Computational designing and screening of solid materials for CO2 capture. By combining thermodynamic database searching with ab initio thermodynamics calculations, we present a simulation scheme to [...]

CCUS Capacity Building and Technology Adoption in Mexico

Burton E., Mateer N., Mota J., University Caifornia Berkeley, US

Mexico has committed in the Paris Agreement to ambitious greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Their plan to meet these goals, which is summarized in the CCUS Technology Roadmap in Mexico, includes widespread deployment of CCUS [...]

Harsh environment low cost LIBS sensor for sub-surface CO2 leak detection in carbon sequestration

Jain J., Goueguel C.L., National Energy Technology Laboratory, US

The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) program goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from anthropogenic sources will require great cost and effort. To ensure the success of the program [...]

TechnoEconomicEnvironmental Assessment Method for CO2Utilization in Chemicals Production Based on Evidence from StartUps and Literature

Zimmermann A., Kant M., Schomäcker R., Kratzer J., TU Berlin, DE

Greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting anthropogenic climate change create tremendous economic, ecologic and social challenges for societies today and in the future. To mitigate these effects, world leaders agreed to limit global warming to [...]

Utilization of Captured CO2 for Conversion to Alkyl Carbonates

Panchal C.B., Prindle J.C., Sturtz R., Doctor R., E3Tec Service, LLC, US

There are very limited uses of captured CO2 other than for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) which currently has in excess of 126 projects globally; some as high as a 2 Mtonne/yr capacity. The Global Carbon [...]

Can CCS become a battery?

Matuszak D., U.S. Department of Energy, US

It is challenging to construct a business case for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) without a supportive revenue model or adequate policy. Most CCS projects that attained financing at least in Y2015 relied on CO2 [...]